The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-06-17
PERSONAL.

THE Boston Papyrus Club has contributed
5000 toward building Walt Whitman a cottage.
GEN BouLANGER was nearly suffocated with
smoke while escaping from the Opera Comique
fire. in Paris.
"LAvANTE,' the alleged posthumous poem of
Edgar A. Poe, recently published, is reDudiated
in critical circles.
Greek costume for Mrs. James Brown Potter
which she will wear in play soon to be pro-
duced.
Roscoe CoNKLING keeps record of his daily
personal expenses, and its pages show that he
paid 1895 for street car fare in the last twelve
months
SAMUEL MINTURN PECK, Alanama's favorite
poet is preparing his second volume for publ
cation. His Cap and Bells found a ready sale
throughout the entire South.
SARAH BERNHARDT remarked while gazing at
the performance in the Chinese theatre at San
Francisco: Its theatre for children, and it
makes one feel like a child to be in it,"
IT is curious coincidence that during their
respective terms of Office Presidents Pierce and
Buchanan were absent from Washington the
same number OF days, namely, ffty-seven.
THE Lee Memorial Association has erected at
Lexington, Va, mausoleum costing $50, 900
which contains the remains of Gen. Robert f.
Lee and two female members of the Lee family
GEN. RossER is now a rich man. having since
the war made q large fortune in the Northwest
as engineer of the Northern Pacific road and by
speculation. He lives in Charlottesville, Va,
where he has built fine residence.
Ex-VIcE PRESIDENT HANNIBAL HAMrrS. who
will be az in August, assures his friends that he
feels like healthy man of 30, and is constantly
counting back under vague feeling that mis-
take has been made in estimating his years.
JOIN NIXON, of Philadelphia one Of the Revo-
lutionary leaders, was the first person to read
the Declaration OF Independence in public His
granddaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth A. Hemsley
recently died in Philadelphia in her nincty-sec
ond year.
THE Paris journals announce the approaching
marriage of her highness Princess Murat with
Don Joseph Carracciolo, Duke of Laveo Prince
of Torclla and Grandee of Spain of the first
class. Princess Eugene is the eldest daughter
of his highness Prince Murat and his Wife nee
Princess of Wagram She is a sister of Count
ess Goluchowska and of Prince Joachim Murat
Gov. HILL was asked not long ago what he did
to occupy his mind on summer evenings when
everybody is out of town. II lean back in NV
chair on the piazza, answered the Governor
and reflect" The reply is good indication of
the Governors character He is steady and
earnest thinker and he never takes a step of the
slightest Importance until he has weighed its
full significance at his leisure.
THE late ex-vice President Wheeler had
great reputation MS political prophet. He
foretold the panic of 1873 and even went into
minute details which were afterwards verified
He propheSed the nominations of Tilden and
Hayes in 1875 He said to Blaine just before the
Cincinnati convention: Brother Blaine. don't
set your heart upon the Presidential nomina-
ton. The Hxt candidate of the Republican
party for Pm ident is now Governor Of Ohio"
TENNESSEE is beginning 20 win prominence in
the literary world. II is fact not generally
known that Miss Murfree George Egbert Grad.
dock has brother who Is making his mark in
fiction under the nom de plume of William Perry
Bronn. Another Tennessee name which has be-
come somewhat prominent in the same line of
late is that Of Miss Willie A. Dromgoole, who
was one of the winners in the Youths Com
pdnioH prize competition last year She has
been engrossinR clerk for the Tennessee Legisla-
ture for two sessions She is very clever In de-
pcsing lie IN the Tennessee mountains.